The article “Doctor Who Discovered CTE in NFL Players Claims O.J. Simpson Has It” is a piece written about post career brain injuries in football that was published CBS, a world renowned news service. Their goal is to educate parents and young players on the dangers football can have on your body. John Breech is a senior editor at CBS sports. The article states that Dr. Bennet Omalu, best known for his original discovery of the dangers of football on the brain, believes that Oj Simpson suffers from CTE, an illness caused by repeated blows to the head during Simpson’s NFL career. Many former NFL players have suffered from post career head injuries.…
Hook number 1: According to a study performed by PBS Frontline and ESPN Outside the Lines in 2012, “the rate of concussions per week in the National Football League has rose from 5.4 per week in 2009, to 7.6 in 2010, and 8.4 in 2011” (Fainaru, 2012). This narrative hook would draw the reader in by presenting them with the statistic of the rate that concussions occur within the National Football League. Creswell states in his book, that one should “consider numeric information for impact” (2014, p.114).…
☠ CTE KILLS ☠ An athlete goes down on the field, and paramedics rush to his aid. When they arrive to help him they observe he has a large amount of head trauma. Over the years, this same athlete will continue to play contact sports such as football, or boxing resulting permanent brain damage. At the young age of forty, this athlete could already have dementia-like symptoms that occur in older adults.…
When people talk about concussions in sports, football is known to be the most controversial sport around this topic. Football players are constantly getting banged up and hit from all different directions throughout the course of a game. Most of the time, many spectators and coaches try to ignore the big hits during games because the thought of something being wrong with the player usually does not cross anyone’s mind. In many instances, playing football has left some players paralyzed or even deceased due to the countless amount of collisions taken by the player throughout their career. As the text states, “when he walked out the door to play football that day, it didn’t cross my mind that I wouldn’t see him come off that field” (Romano).…
In Ewalt’s article “Bread and Circuses,” he states, “It's time to reconsider violence in sports and embrace the essential humanity…
In the movie Concussion Dr. Omalu discovers a disease which is killing NFL football players. The disease coined by Dr. Omalu called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) was not well received by the National Football League. In the movie, the NFL calls Dr. Omalu a quack and that he is completely wrong with his theory of football-related concussions and the development of CTE. The ethical dilemma is that there is a correlation between chronic head trauma and blows, CTE, and football, but the NFL brings joy and entertainment and it brings to the public. Through the teleological and deontological moral reasoning theory the course of action for the NFL will be determined.…
The Withdraws of Football The benefits that come from playing a sport like are astounding. The extra muscles, the increase in stamina and strength as well as the development of leadership and sportsmanship skills is enough to make any sports fan enjoy the physical activities. Yet with the rise in attention regarding the potential life threatening injuries most football players sustain from the play the field, it brings up the questions many sports fans, and concerned football moms, often ask themselves: is football too dangerous of a sport. With the evidence shown supporting the allegations of football being hazardous, it’s obvious that football is too dangerous to play.…
Bioethical issues are ever-present. However, it is not until one opens their eyes that one can see how these issues impact the way we make decisions and understand life. In the first essay of this course, students were asked to identify central bioethics themes present in the film Concussion. Initially, I identified three main themes that highlight bioethical issues within the film. The first theme was organization v. individuals, which represented the National Football league’s monetary interest in looking out for itself, instead of protecting the overall health and safety of its athletes.…
In the 2011-2012 NHL offseason Derek Boogard, Rick Rypien, Wade Belak and Bob Proburt all sadly passed away. Three out of the four had committed suicide and the other overdosed on pain medication. When doctors looked at the brains of all four they all had CTE. Was it just a coincidence that all 4 were enforcers? Was it a coincidence that all 4 had countless concussions and developed CTE?…
Dominick Helton Professor Azard English 1302 4 February 2017 It’s Football or the Brain The Crazed Nature of American Football As a nation that lauds the act of competition, the United States has become especially crazed with sports. This very crazed nature has allowed professional sports leagues to grow to the point of generating billions of dollars of revenue every year. One sport which may illustrate this fact better than any other is football, which stands at the very peak of American Sporting today.…
but there's an issue that has been brought up each now and then along the boxing history which is whether we should ban boxing or not .lots of scientific researches supported the fact that fighters are exposed to the risk of brain damage but another group doesn't believe in that case which makes us stand overwhelmed and ask ourselves aren't we supposed to take action towards that issue ?” The…
The PBS documentary League of Denial discusses the normalization of violence and masculinity. The documentary goes on to talk about the NFL’s denial of the connection of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and football. The NFL has been one of the United States leading representations in our cultures masculine ideologies. This men’s club view point of get back up and go back in, injuries be damned mentality, has allowed the NFL to keep the correlation of football head injuries mental health disease under wraps. If we look at this through a sociological lens, we would look at the role of social recognition has played in the idea that they can become wealthy, and idolized by millions.…
“You play for an extended time, likelihood is you're going to tear your MCL or ACL. you'll break your leg, snap your femoris, break your arm, break your neck." "In boxing you…
Boxing isn't for everybody. It may be appreciate why individuals don't like, or excuse sport wherever the aim is to knock your opponent out, and don't raise them to. However, people who would ban it should justify why their aesthetic preferences ought to be obligatory on others who support and partake sky-high in boxing. wherever will that ethical monopoly come back from? a lot of tangibly, those tilt that boxing ought to be illegal as a result of it's too risky got to take a risk-reality check.…
Salvulescu and his fellow colleagues further push the issue that these drugs should be allowed, but if and only if those who partake of it are safe with it. Only drugs that will not cause any bodily harm should be allowed, restating their view that “We should permit drugs that are safe, and continue to ban and monitor drugs that are unsafe…for example anabolic steroids” (Savulescu et al. 5). By monitoring the use of these drugs and putting the safety of the athletes first, the use of these drugs should be permitted in sports, but this issue goes farther than the health of athletes and leads to the realm of…